Browsing items in: Maricopa Pottery (Connell Collection)

Medium-sized Maricopa Polychrome jar with a globular body, flat base, very short neck, and everted rim. Red and rather fugitive creamy white slip applied in an interlocking a six-lobed pattern. The red area was polished, in addition to having...

Medium sized, shallow Maricopa Black-on-red bowl with appliquéd human facial elements. Interior has four human faces, roughly spaced, near the rim, each with appliquéd eyes and nose and painted details; oval eyes are ringed, with a dot in the...

Medium sized deep Maricopa Black-on-cream bowl with a nearly hemispherical body, slightly incurved rim. Both exterior and interior surfaces are uneven in finish and color, not highly polished, and decorated with off-black paint. The interior has a...

Maricopa Black-on-red duck effigy vessel with a flat base, boot shaped body, a tab protrusion representing the tail, short neck, and rounded head with a small beak and an opening along the crown. Exterior surface covered with a red slip, polished,...

Medium sized Maricopa Black-on-cream bowl, shaped and decorated like a flower with five petals; base of the vessel is flat, lower body has steep sides, and the deeply scalloped rim flares outward. Interior base and lower body are painted a solid...

Small Maricopa Black-on-red bowl with steep, flared walls, everted rim, and a flat base. The bowl is slipped red and polished on both interior and exterior surfaces. The interior surface is less smooth and presents gray deposits on the bottom....

Small globular Maricopa Black-on-cream bowl, roughly symmetrical, with an incurved rim. The bowl is pinkish gray both inside and outside; the interior surface is uneven, not highly polished, and has scraping marks. The base is flat with a deep...

Small Maricopa Black-on-cream bowl with a globular body, incurved rim, flat base. The exterior is covered with a light brown slip and highly polished; the interior is unpolished with wiping striations. The exterior is decorated with motifs...

Small Black-on-Red jar with a flat base, high shoulders, and a recurved rim. Exterior of the vessel and interior of the mouth have been covered with a red slip, polished and decorated with black geometric designs. Lip of rim has solid painted line,...

Asymmetrical Maricopa Black-on-cream bowl with an everted and crenellated rim, a pedestal foot and a hemispherical body. The rim has 14 square crenellations separated by wide U-shaped notches. The surface is uneven and roughly polished inside and...

Medium sized Maricopa Black-on-red bowl with a pedestal foot and a scalloped rim. Interior and exterior surfaces have been slipped red, polished, and decorated. Interior and exterior have banded design layout The scalloped edge is painted. The...

Medium sized black-on-cream bowl, oval in plan, with human faces on the narrow ends. Faces have raised oval eyes, nose and chin. The eyes have an oval outline and central pupil, with simple arched eyebrows. The mouth is a straight line between...

Small Maricopa Black-on-cream jar with a flat base, straight walls, high shoulder, and a small mouth. The shape is fairly symmetrical and exterior surface is smooth, highly polished with polishing striations and dark brown curvilinear decorations...

Small to medium sized Maricopa Black-on-red globular jar. Orifice larger than that of typical "seed jar" form. Exterior surface slipped red, polished, and painted. Design field stretches from just below the rim to the base. Quartered design...

Globular Maricopa polychrome bowl with two large appliquéd toads/ frogs/lizards. Animals are located on opposite sides of the bowl, with their heads extending above the rim. Exterior of the bowl slipped red, heads have a thin cream colored slip; ...

Large polychrome jar, a short neck with two applied, molded, and painted effigy faces on either side, restricted opening, out-curved rim; globular body with a flat base. The shape is fairly symmetrical, surface is highly polished red, except for...

A small Maricopa Polychrome jar with two human faces on opposite sides of the vessel just below the rim. Jar is roughly a compressed globular form; base is slightly flattened, upper body incurves a little more sharply above the shoulder. The jar...